Film Review of Adaptation
Year: 2002 Reviewer: Chris Docker
From the ‘Being John Malkovitch' stable comes a movie that is far too clever by half but, like its predecessor, is entertaining enough to be forgiven. Nick Cage plays both a serious scriptwriter and his wannabe brother who wants to write movies by numbers and get the chicky-babe perks. The film, we gradually realise, is the developing script as written by the serious brother and messed up and then saved by the second brother. Making a film from a novel about the beauty of orchids is the rather limp excuse for which no-one can manage to find a satisfying storyline. The resulting ‘adaptation' is something of a failure in a literal sense, but a triumph of creative ingenuity and self-parody. Cleverness triumphs over substance - but what the heck.
Rating: 7/10
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